Original jurisdiction are preserved here at the National Archives as are opinions, docket books, minutes, attorney rolls with our earliest records starting in 1790. We also have the audio recordings of the Supreme Court and the majority have been digitized and available online. We are working on a project to prepare all of these digital recordings for our online catalog and we hope to have them available by september of this year. Since its founding in 1934 the National Archives has hosted Supreme Court justices in person as well as in its records. In some of the justices we will discuss tonight have had close connections with this agency. In the 1950s Justice Felix frankfurter served on the board of the National Historical publications and records commission, followed by justice brendan, rehnquist, blackman and associater. In the 1960s Justice Goldberg served on the archivist advisory council. The archives launched a series of conversations with Supreme Court justices of the United St
Original jurisdiction are preserved here at the National Archives as are opinions, docket books, minutes, attorney rolls with our earliest records starting in 1790. We also have the audio recordings of the Supreme Court and the majority have been digitized and available online. We are working on a project to prepare all of these digital recordings for our online catalog and we hope to have them available by september of this year. Since its founding in 1934 the National Archives has hosted Supreme Court justices in person as well as in its records. In some of the justices we will discuss tonight have had close connections with this agency. In the 1950s Justice Felix frankfurter served on the board of the National Historical publications and records commission, followed by justice brendan, rehnquist, blackman and associater. In the 1960s Justice Goldberg served on the archivist advisory council. The archives launched a series of conversations with Supreme Court justices of the United St
Documents should include a bill of rights. Mr. Brookhiser explores the conflicting opinions of Founding Fathers george mason, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton while also addressing how the bill of rights were eventually ratified by the new states. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong event. So tonights program is James Madison, father of the constitution, and its part of our carl menges lecture series in american history. Id like to thank carl menges for all his support and for helping us to create this series and for all he does as a valued member of New York Historical Society Board of trustees, carl, thank you. [ applause ] id also like to recognize and thank trustees lon jacobs, cy sternberg and all our Chairmans Council members with us for all their great work and support as well, lets give them all a hand, too. [ applause ] so the program tonight will last an hour and include a questionandanswer session and there will be a formal book signing
And came for a particular type of freedom and had to Work Together for a first ethically diverse society, ethnic and religious and background diversity truly leads to creativity. It was that sort of bubbling mix there that allows philadelphia to become a place of great commerce, but also, a place of great middle class entreprene entrepreneursh entrepreneurship. Startup and innovation. Benjamin franklin eventually decides after being an apprentice to a printer there to start his own print shop. And goes over to england, buys the type and the found rips and stuff. Back then, philadelphia had i think 11 newspapers and he starts the 12th. It was really great in the days in which it was great competing voices and there were newspapers for the and he kans and for penn family and the propry tories and people loyal to the crown and ben franklin starts the first really independent newspaper, not affiliated with any faction but really being willing to poke fun at all factions and to stand up for
People to come home to. So he has that, and poly is very close to him and comes over when he is dying and comes over when he dies. On social media and other things, Benjamin Franklin believed very strongly that the free flow of ideas and free opinion of spread of ideas would empower people and eventually, in a very raggedy way, lead to more democracy, more liberties, more individual empowerment. He believed if there were 11 papers, there was room for a 12th. He believed nobody should control the free flow of information. He helped instill in americas dna by bringing thomas paine over, for example, and helping paine, you know, print pamphlets and hand them out on the Street Corner. He was able and by the way, thomas paine Benjamin Franklin, they are like the first bloggers in a way. I mean, these are pamphleteers and they are spreading ideas. Nowadays if you look at china, which is once again cracking down on the free flow of ideas, and if you look at what the free flow of ideas is doin